The Mastodon is now posted at www.drake.net Click on new rifle inventory and scroll down to 7th gun. Some pretty cool pictures! Hope you like them.

Nice, nice price too!

Should be a fair price. A lot of money, but a lot of gun and a lot of engraving too.

Nice gun, way out of my budget. As in divide by 100. Seems a bit of a waste, to make a gun so fancy that its unlikely to ever see much use. I wonder how much of that 6 figure price is art and how much is gun.

A shame something like this could not be mass produced as a shooter. You think some 3rd world country could cobble together a single shot. Perhaps if not a 4 then something using industrial 8 gauge shells.

Indeed a masterpiece, a rifle like that deserves to shine and take some of the Worlds finest game. Thought I'd offer a kidney but then it's pretty well washed .
Very beautiful work of art and a fine tool. Enjoyed the images.
Rodney.

The # 5 Ken Owen 4 bore Mastodon has hunted Africa at least 3 times and taken several big game animals. I know that Butch Searcy charges 85000 for a minimally engraved boxlock 4 bore and 95000 for a minimally engraved 4 bore sidelock.I believe Peter Haumbraush in Ferlacker Austria charges right at 128,000 for a 4 bore with minimal engraving. The engraving alone on this gun retails in the 15000 to 20000 dollar mark. It took a little over 3 hundred hours to be fully engraved. While the gun is expensive, I think it is priced accordingly with other quality 4 bores. Few 4 bores are a true 1.025" diameter as Ken Owens are. Most English 4 bores are actually more like a true 6 bore diameter. measurement.

Unless the original owner is dead, I have a hard time understanding why someone would go through the expense of having such an heirloom item made just to turn around and sell it after a while.

You would have to ask SAFARI KID, it was his rifle, before I obtained it from him. I am willing to part with it, because I am fortunate to currently own 2 Ken Owen 4 bore doubles and really only need to keep one of them for myself. Safari Kids was the fifth one made, and I got #6 made which was Kens last 4 bore that he was making.

I would have loved to known the price on this fantastic H&H seen on the same page...